Rip Iain Banks

[daffy654]

Yet another good author has just died.
R.I.P. Iain Banks, you kept me entertained for many an hour.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/09/iain-banks-has-died-aged-59_n_3411833.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

[Mamyalynne]

RIP Iain.

[missnemesis]

The literary world has lost one of it's best. My thoughts are with his wife and family. RIP :(

[Tilly2]

A brilliant writer. I shall miss his books.

[LazyGun]

Just seen the news announcement. Feel very sad. I was shocked upon hearing his announcement of terminal gall bladder just a few months ago, in April. Thoughts to his family and especially his only just married widow.

[KUSTARD]

I have bought my husband EVERY Iain Banks and Iain M Banks book ever written and he has kept them all. Such a sad loss of a brilliant author. He said a while ago that the book he was writing would be his last because of his illness. Does anyone know if he finished it?

[EcclesCake]

"Will you become my widow?" I think that it such a touching question and reveals the strength of their relationship.

Despite persevering I have never managed one of his books irrespective of the genre.

[missnemesis]

As will I Tilly. The beginning of his 'Crow Road' never ceases to make me smile;

"It was the day my grandmother exploded"

[LazyGun]

@Kustard Yes, it was finished - called The Quarry - he was presented with a finished copy by the publishers a few weeks ago... The publication date is around now, there are some reviews of it available,....

[Lie-in King]

I could never get into his books, but appreciate that many people will miss him.

RIP

[Psybbo]

Oh so sad, my condolences to his wife and family, his books will be greatly missed

[KUSTARD]

Thanks so much Lazygun. I'll make sure I get a copy to complete the set. We even have his "The Whisky Trail" which is a totally different kind of book.

[Ansteynick]

It was The Wasp Factory that got me hooked! I read it alone, sat outside my campervan on an otherwise deserted lonely campsite late into the night, I literally couldn't put it down, but had to keep peeping around me, startled by the slightest noise! What an experience! RIP Iain, I loved listening to you talking on the radio too - so enthusiastic and bright!

[PhantomX]

Although I'd met Iain regularly at SF cons, I regret that I never had a chance to chat : I shall miss his stories of the Culture - particularly the witty names given to their spaceships. (BTW I didn't know that he was really famous till I heard on the radio that his death was front-page news on the Telegraph :( )